One Life at a Time
Helping Skills and Interventions
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2003
336 pages
978-1-135-15723-4 (ISBN)
Description
Refreshing, highly practical, and student-centred, this dynamic text covers all the basic skills and core interventions helpers-in-training need to know in order to begin seeing clients. Kottler and Brew use a broad model of helping to acquaint students with a myriad of clinical styles in a variety of settings. Case examples, first-person accounts, homework assignments, and a series of reflective exercises illustrate how to apply these skills to the helper's own life and in working with others ... One Life at a Time.
Important features of this text include:
* Approaches to assessment and diagnosis of client problems
* Attention to needs of individuals within diverse social, ethnic, and cultural contexts
* Vital background information of the major conceptual frameworks
* Useful self-monitoring techniques
* Numerous aspects of building and maintaining relationships
* Practical ways to maintain progress and evaluate results
Important features of this text include:
* Approaches to assessment and diagnosis of client problems
* Attention to needs of individuals within diverse social, ethnic, and cultural contexts
* Vital background information of the major conceptual frameworks
* Useful self-monitoring techniques
* Numerous aspects of building and maintaining relationships
* Practical ways to maintain progress and evaluate results
Reviews / Votes
"[T]his text goes beyond the usual range of perspectives that are offered in the 'helping skills' canon, covering professional skills and issues in a humourously engaging and pragmatically helpful way." - Marilyn Montgomery, Phd, LMHC, NBCC, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, USA"Kottler and Brew have written a book which will appeal to beginning practitioners who are seeking to develop their counselling skills. The material is logically organized, makes extensive use of examples, and provides excellent exercises for instructors to use in techniques courses." - Fred O. Bradley, Phd, Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Kansas State University, USA, and immmediate past-president of ACES
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
8,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-15723-4 (9781135157234)
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Persons
A. Kottler and Leah Brew, both California State University, Fullerton
Content
Part I The Process Revealed; Chapter 2 Clients in Need: Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors; Chapter 3 Models of Helping; Part II Skills for Building Collaborative Relationships; Chapter 5 Skills of Assessment and Diagnosis; Chapter 6 Exploration Skills; Chapter 7 Promoting Understanding and Insight; Chapter 8 Facilitating Action; Chapter 9 Maintaining Progress and Evaluating Results; Part III Skills of Family Intervention and Consultation; Chapter 11 Group Leadership Skills; Chapter 12 Where to Go Next;
